Chelsea Vs Manchester City (PL) Wed 05/04 2017 KO 20:00 GMT

[Dr Gonzo]

At least we are generally better second half but we are still winning. 

[Chelsbear]

1 minute ago, Barrettinator said:

It's not like Mitchy offers anything better.

I didn't say bring him in.....

[ForeverCarefree]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue... 

[ChelsaePirate]

Best live stream so far

[Barrettinator]

Just now, Chelsbear said:

I didn't say bring him in.....

Wouldn't play 3 small players against that back line mate. I reckon Costa will get a tap in at some point.

[Tibbers]

Costa needs to get himself together. 

[TheChelsRVA]

Our midfield is getting pretty well run through. I think we will see matic on for fabregas. Got to strengthen up defense especially down the left side with Cahill and Alonso being targeted pretty heavily 

[Zeta]

This is why I hate the games against City. Bloody anything could happen in the 2nd half. We could win 4-1, or lose 2-5, and neither would be a surprise.

[TheBluesBrother]

Costa is really pissing me off. Most important match and he doesn't give a f*ck. He's off in the Summer but you would think he'd like to win the title. We look under the cosh at times and I just hope Conte gets the hairdryer out at halftime. We need a third goal and to concentrate at the back. Poop A Thon Pt2 coming up.

[Chelsbear]

Just now, Barrettinator said:

Wouldn't play 3 small players against that back line mate. I reckon Costa will get a tap in at some point.

I'd move Hazard up top and bring Willian on tbh. 

Our long balls and punts Costa isn't getting near anyway, he's not been able to touch their defenders 

[DonAntonio]

Anyone else fancy bringing on matic and rlc drop to a back 5 to shore things up wait for our chance on the break

[just]

You can detect the nervousness. Crowd practically silent, the old David Luiz that I thought had gone, returns, Costa paling in Aguero's shadow, and an awful goal keeping error.

We will play better second half. We will have to.

[gazza]

really are missing moses , cesc and conte getting overun in midfield,we def need again goal as i can not see us keeping them out.

but a draw will do if the spuds lose

[Zola]

City better in first for me. Gotta do better. Bit sloppy all over

[Zeta]

Think we need to bring Matic in for Fabregas. Kante is the one who engages first, which leaves space behind him, and Matic is more inclined to sit back there than Fabregas, oitherwise they'll keep exploiting that.

[evissy]

What we need is a professional secobd half. Smart, controlled and tough. 

[ChelsaePirate]

Zouma is still stuck at 4 at the back formation

His back pass to Tibo  was evidence

Must play ball forward at stationery situations

[DonAntonio]

f**k me just saw their goal Kante needed to do more there and Tibi needs a kick up the arse in the dressing room from conte 

[Snedger]

Pleased we're winning but this is horrrendus. It's proper backs to the wall stuff. I'm watching it in a working men's club in south Manchester and it only makes it worse. They're just like other fans though. When they equalised, instead of cheering and being happy with their team they just shouted stuff about "shutting up the cockneys" and similar things. They also largely hold their own team is low esteem. I guess it's an expectation thing. When you spend hundreds of millions on 'world class players' and employ one of the worlds best managers, you naturally expect things to be pretty damn perfect. It's not a game any more, it's a business.

Anyway, it's a proper goalkeeping masterclass tonight. May the least bonkers keeper win.

[Scott Harris]

Urgh, i hate watching back that goal we conceded. It was like watching us from last season, especially from Courtois. Makes a mistake and then pushes a shot straight back into the danger area. That goal conceded was all on Courtois there.

I really wish we would stop making these errors at the back. We are conceding far too many goals from them.

[evissy]

Twitter thinks Matic is coming on. 

[Kev56]

f**ked off with costa for quite a while now,  take him off, bring on batman for the second half, Citys defence is sh*te but Costas not scaring them at all. Now he'll go and score a blinder.

[Barrettinator]

2 minutes ago, gazza said:

really are missing moses , cesc and conte getting overun in midfield,we def need again goal as i can not see us keeping them out.

but a draw will do if the spuds lose

Didn't think a Chelsea fan would make the mistake commentators make of mistaking Kante for Conte. 

[Chelsbear]

It's back to the walls which is the worst way we can play because City are woeful when you actually attack them, trouble is they are much better on the ball than us tonight so fa 

[Stas1]

In Costa's defense, he does a lot of running trying to harass City players. I think he will come good in this game. Zouma is a little nervous, needs to gain his pre-trauma confidence pretty damn quick. On a side note, I was very pissed off when Jose got rid of De Bruyne, I wish he was on our side.